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Athletes often take off their gloves, their pads, their caps before they start an interview. Liv Tapsall takes a seat on the bench at the Trinity field hockey field and takes off her blonde wig. She plays bald. "We did this exercise in preseason where each of us wrote down six words about ourselves," Tapsall said Thursday. "And then we had to guess who everyone was. I wrote, 'Most aerodynamic player in the NESCAC.' " None of the Bantams needed two guesses. Liv Tapsall plays bold, too. The junior forward was diagnosed with alopecia at age 10. It started with small bald patches in her scalp. She'd get cortisone shots to restart the growth. She was...

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Athletes often take off their gloves, their pads, their caps before they start an interview. Liv Tapsall takes a seat on the bench at the Trinity field hockey field and takes off her blonde wig.
She plays bald.
"We did this exercise in preseason...

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